Releases: saschagobel/legislatoR
Releases · saschagobel/legislatoR
legislatoR 1.1
- Data for Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Scotland, and USA updated
- Data for Brazil, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, and Turkey newly added
- All data moved to Harvard Dataverse
legislatoR 1.0
- All legislative periods of Spain's Congreso de los Diputados added to the database (14 in total).
- Ongoing session of the Austrian Nationalrat added to the database (27th) and concluded session updated (26th).
- Ongoing session of the Canadian House of Commons added to the database (43th) and concluded session updated (42th).
- Ongoing session of the Irish Dáil added to the database (33th) and concluded session updated (32th).
- Ongoing session of the UK House of Commons added to the database (58th) and concluded session updated (57th).
- Irish Dáil data integrated with Database of Parliamentary Speeches in Ireland.
- Czech Poslanecka Snemovna data integrated with ParlSpeech V1.
- UK House of Commons data integrated with ParlSpeech V1.
- Spanish Congreso de los Diputados data integrated with ParlSpeech V2.
- Austrian Nationalrat data integrated with ParlSpeech V2.
- Daily Wikipedia page traffic now goes back to December 2007 (except for the US House, where file storage restrictions currently limit traffic to range back to July 2009 only).
- New
cld_content()
function that offers a quick overview of the CLD's scope and valid three-letter country codes, and helps to conventiently loop/map over legislatures and sessions. - "Introducing legislatoR" Vignette added.
- Now available via CRAN
- New Logo/Hexsticker.
legislatoR 0.2.0
- 1st to 37th legislative periods of UK's House of Commons added to the database (37 in total).
- Missing legislators and services variable added to all sessions of the French Assemblée.
- German Bundestag data integrated with BTVote and ParlSpeech data.
- UK House of Commons data integrated with Eggers and Spirling british political development database (starting from 38th session).
- United States House and Senate data integrated with Voteview and congressional bills project data.
- Missing Twitter handles added for the Austrian Nationalrat, Czech Poslanecka Snemovna, French Assemblée, German Bundestag, Irish Dail, UK House of Commons, and United States House and Senate (841 in total).
- Missing religious affilition added for United States House and Senate and Canada's House of Commons.
- Missing ethnicity added for Canada and UK's House of Commons.
legislatoR 0.1.0
- Changed some function calls:
get_facial
is nowget_portrait
andget_occupation
is nowget_profession
. - Changed valid legislature arguments for
get_
functions. Full legislature names are no longer accepted as legislature codes. Instead, three-letter country codes such asaut
,can
,cze
,fra
,deu
,irl
,sco
,gbr
,usa_house
,usa_senate
must be used. - All legislative periods of Canada's House of Commons added to the database (42 in total).
- All legislative periods of Czech Republic's Poslanecka Snemovna added to the database (8 in total).
- All legislative periods of Scotland's Parliament added to the database (5 in total).
- 38th - 57th legislative periods of UK's House of Commons added to the database (20 in total).
- Current session of the Austrian Nationalrat added to the database (26th).
- Current session of the German Bundestag added to the database (19th).
- Current session of the French Assemble added to the database (15th).
- Current session of the United States House of representatives added to the database (116th).
- Current session of the United States Senate added to the database (116th).
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 three-letter country codes added to all core datasets.
- Start- and end date of sessions added to all political datasets.
- Missing legislators and services variable added to all sessions of the Irish Dáil.
- Error in United States Senate Wikipedia revision records corrected.
- Missing religious affiliation added from 1st to 18th German Bundestag using official data.
- Erroneous information on United States Senate and House members' period of service corrected.
- Additional variables on government/opposition status and leader positions added to all sessions of the Canadian House of Commons and United States Congress.
- Correction and alignment of party names across legislative periods for all parliaments.
- Emotion estimates removed from the portraits dataset.
legislatoR 0.0.0.9000
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